>Just to counter that as a passenger on a total of 209 flight sectors, I
>have suffered two in-flight shutdowns. One a precautionary event, the
>other a bird strike.
Hmmm ... out of 403 flights in my log since the start of 1986, I've
been on only one with an in-flight shutdown.
>I have also flown on three aircraft that have since had fatal crashes.
I've been on two that subsequently had fatal crashes -- and one that
*previously* had had a fatal accident! (In October, I flew ORD-SFO on
N4724U, the United 747 that lost its cargo door and nine passengers
operating UA 811. If you look at the post-accident pictures, the
first two or three windows on the upper deck, above the cargo door,
are where my seat was. And yes, I knew exactly what plane I was on.)
>I think I am therefore a statistical abnormality.
I don't know about statistics, but my wife definitely thinks I'm an
abnormality when it comes to this stuff. ;-)
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